Iran’s IRGC seizes two vessels in Persian Gulf, official threatens US with ‘massacre and hell’
The Public Relations Department of the Revolutionary Guard Navy claimed that more than one million liters of smuggled fuel were found on the ships.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy claimed to have seized two ships carrying smuggled fuel near Fars Island, Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA) reported on Thursday.
The Public Relations Department of the Revolutionary Guard Navy claimed that more than one million liters of fuel were on board the ships. 15 foreign crew members were referred to judicial authorities.
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According to ISNA, the ships had been operating within a smuggling network for the past several months and were seized through surveillance, intelligence work and naval operations by the Revolutionary Guard.
An Aframax-sized oil tanker is seen off the coast of Bushehr, Iran, June 8, 2022 (Source: SADRA COMPANY/WANA (WEST ASIA NEWS AGENCY)/HANDOUT VIA REUTERS)
‘The Strait of Hormuz will be a place of massacre, hell for the USA’
Later on Thursday, Izetullah Zarghami, a former minister and former head of Iran’s state broadcaster (IRIB), warned that “the Strait of Hormuz will be a place of slaughter and hell.”
“I am sure that the Strait of Hormuz will be a place of slaughter and hell for the United States… Iran will show that the Strait of Hormuz historically belongs to Iran. The only thing Americans can think of is playing with their ships and moving them from one place to another.”
This is an evolving story.
